background and objectives: balanced scorecard is an increasingly popular tool for performance evaluation. healthcare organizations have broadly adopted this method for implementing their strategic plans. there is, however, increasing concerns on barriers to balanced scorecard implementation. built on the fundamental impacts of organizational culture on hospital performance, this study explored ...

BACKGROUND Individual quality measures have significant limitations for assessing surgical performance. Despite growing interest in composite measures, empirically-based methods for combining multiple domains of surgical quality are not well established. OBJECTIVE To develop and validate a composite measure of surgical performance that best describes variation in hospital mortality rates and ...

Statistics and information are considered the most important source of power in organizations and the source for all managerial activities. If correct and comprehensive information are readily at hand, incorrect decisions will be reduced to a minimum. The purpose of this study is to review the effects of hospital information system in regards to effectiveness of decisions made by managers. The ...

BACKGROUND The Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement recently proposed percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)-specific process measures. However, information about hospital performance on these measures and the association of PCI process and outcomes measures are not available. METHODS AND RESULTS We linked the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) CathPCI Registry with Me...

BACKGROUND Process performance measures are increasingly used to assess and reward hospital quality. The impact of small hospital case volumes on such measures is not clear. METHODS Using data from the Hospital Quality Alliance, we examined hospital performance for 8 publicly reported process measures for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) from 3761 US hospitals during the reporting period of ...

background: the preventive measures against h1n1 influenza are vitally important. the aim of the present study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and performance of academic hospital staff about h1n1 influenza. methods: this study was carried out on ali-ebne-abiltaleb hospital staff in rafsanjan, iran. the data gathering tool was a researcher made questionnaire comprised of 38 questions on d...

Background and Objective: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most prevalent malignancies in the world. The early detection of CRC is not only a simple process, but it is also the key to its treatment. Given that data mining algorithms could be potentially useful in cancer prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment, the main focus of this study is to measure the performance of some data mining class...

1. Describe the balanced scorecard and dashboard reporting. 2. Describe the four key elements of dashboard reporting. 3. Explain what the most important measure of financial success is. 4. Explain what a health care firm’s primary financial objective should be. 5. Describe the critical drivers of financial performance. 6. Discuss relevant healthcare financial performance measures. 7. Describe t...